Born and raised in the city of Chicago, composer Noah Meites (b.

1982) has been

recognized nationally by New Music USA, BMI, SCI/ASCAP, the Max and Gretel
Janowski Fund, the Virginia Center for Creative Arts, and the Atlantic Center for the
Arts. He has been a featured composer at the Bowdoin International Music
Festival/Charles E. Gamper Festival of Contemporary Music, June in Buffalo, the Pacific
Rim Music Festival, Seoul National University’s NONG Festival, the April in Santa Cruz
Festival of New Music, the Oregon Bach Festival Composers Symposium, and the Royal
Conservatory of the Hague’s Spring Festival. Noah’s major teachers include Louis
Andriessen (with whom he worked closely during a year of intensive postdoctoral study),
Diderik Wagenaar and Martijn Padding (the Royal Conservatory of the Hague), and Paul
Nauert, Hi Kyung Kim, and David Cope (the University of California Santa Cruz). His
other notable teachers include Martin Bresnick (Atlantic Center for the Arts), Tamar
Diesendruck (private study), and Robert Beaser (Bowdoin International Music Festival).

Noah resides in Los Angeles where he serves on the Music Theory faculty of the UCLA
Herb Alpert School of Music. In 2015, Noah co-founded L.A. Signal Lab, a creative
music collective dedicated to commissioning, premiering, and recording stylistically
diverse new music with a focus on bridging the divide between notated and improvised
musical traditions.

Also active as a trumpet player and improviser, Noah has performed as a soloist with the
University of California Santa Cruz Wind Ensemble and was a recipient of the Weston
Prize for Instrumental Performance while an undergraduate at Brown University. Noah
earned a performance certificate in jazz performance from the Centre des Musique Didier
Lockwood (France) in 2004.

More information: http://noahmeites.info